{"id":5055,"date":"2017-11-07T15:30:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T15:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/11\/07\/the-russian-revolution-and-communist-terror\/"},"modified":"2017-11-07T15:30:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T15:30:12","slug":"the-russian-revolution-and-communist-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/11\/07\/the-russian-revolution-and-communist-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"The Russian Revolution and Communist Terror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.org\/newsroom\/article.asp?id=9194\">Excerpt<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">The Marxists\u2019 biggest targets have always been&#0160;<a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/1926\/07\/the-russian-effort-to-abolish-marriage\/306295\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1509552116535000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHNL-CsotqPzCYEjOKhJVAth3iRiQ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/1926\/07\/the-russian-effort-to-abolish-marriage\/306295\/\">the family<\/a>,&#0160;<a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/classroom.synonym.com\/happened-religion-during-communist-rule-russia-8352.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1509552116535000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHEmY1qlej2W6IYscx5NNz3PNgPxw\" href=\"http:\/\/classroom.synonym.com\/happened-religion-during-communist-rule-russia-8352.html\">religion<\/a>, and&#0160;<a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.demdigest.org\/bolshevik-roots-russias-civil-society-repression\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1509552116535000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH5o83xaUyw55Qj69rrGjDJTelRwA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.demdigest.org\/bolshevik-roots-russias-civil-society-repression\/\">civil society<\/a>\u2014institutional obstacles to the imposition of the omnipotent state. With the Bolsheviks in power, Lenin set out to destroy them.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Sounds like the Democrat Party program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Obama did his damndest to undermine civil society. Luckily, he&#39;s history and his would-be leftist successor, Felonia von Pantsuit (HT: Kurt Schlichter) has been sent packing on her broom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">I now hand off to myself. If you study the following posts you will get some idea of what civil society is and why it is important:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2012\/11\/subsidiarity-and-the-lefts-assault-on-civil-society.html\">Subsidiarity and the Left&#39;s Assault on Civil Society<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2013\/06\/epistle-from-malcolm-state-civil-society-individual.html\">Epistle to Malcolm: State, Civil Society, Individual<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<fieldset class=\"zemanta-related\">\n<legend class=\"zemanta-related-title\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Related articles<\/span><\/legend>\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0px; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southplattesentinel.com\/2017\/11\/luther-vs-lenin\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/AV-Yhvi9A73bpASWSTyc_80_80.jpg\" style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 80px; max-width: 100%;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southplattesentinel.com\/2017\/11\/luther-vs-lenin\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 80px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px;\" target=\"_blank\">Luther vs. Lenin &#8211; South Platte Sentinel &#8211; South Platte Sentinel<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0px; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.triadconservative.com\/2017\/11\/bolshevik-revolution-100th-anniversary-america-and-russia-today.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/noimg_52_80_80.jpg\" style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 80px; max-width: 100%;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.triadconservative.com\/2017\/11\/bolshevik-revolution-100th-anniversary-america-and-russia-today.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 80px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px;\" target=\"_blank\">Bolshevik Revolution 100th Anniversary: America and Russia Today &#8211; Triad Conservative<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: The Marxists\u2019 biggest targets have always been&#0160;the family,&#0160;religion, and&#0160;civil society\u2014institutional obstacles to the imposition of the omnipotent state. With the Bolsheviks in power, Lenin set out to destroy them. Sounds like the Democrat Party program. Obama did his damndest to undermine civil society. Luckily, he&#39;s history and his would-be leftist successor, Felonia von Pantsuit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/11\/07\/the-russian-revolution-and-communist-terror\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Russian Revolution and Communist Terror&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}